Physical Education ESO

1. ORIENTATION

2. WHAT IS IT?
BASIC CONCEPTS
First thing: knowing where I am.
Second thing: knowing where I want to go.
Third thing: choosing the best route.

3. WHERE ARE WE?
Find a point of reference.
The common reference points are cardinalpoints

4. COMPASS ROSE/WIND ROSE

5. THE SUN
.
The sun always rises in the East and sets in the
West.

6. THE SUN
To find the South, here in Europe, we can set our
watch to Greenwich time, point towards the
sun with the small hand. The bisector of the
angle in relation to twelve indicates the South.

7. THE STARS
Polar star: It always points North.

8. TREE RINGS
Finding the stump of an isolated tree, and looking
at the rings in the trump, we can see that trees
grow more on the South as they receive more
sunshine on that side.

9. THE COMPASS
Transparent plastic base
Graded Limbo
Magnetic pointer
Direction arrow and auxiliary lines

10. SILVA COMPASS

11. WHERE I WANT TO GO

12. CHOOSING THE BEST ROUTE